Asmik Grigorian

If Ostap Bender were one of the characters in Sweeney Todd, Mrs. Lovett would definitely outsmart him… When “times is hard” and famine rages in town, “eminently practical” solutions are to be sought: as Sweeney goes on his killing spree, dead bodies start piling up in his shaving parlour, meanwhile the pastry chef from the bakeshop below is in dire need of meat for making her pies. Now, there’s an idea!
It took months of exhausting work for Asmik Grigorian to learn Mrs. Lovett’s complicated part, with much of it written in patter song. Moreover, she had to adopt cockney accent for it, despite the fact that she only knew a few words in English at the time. And nobody had any inkling of that! The daughter of Gegham Grigorian and Irena Milkevičiūtė used to race down the corridors of La Scala as a child and grew up to become one of the world’s most sought-after sopranos, having anchored her title as the best female opera soloist in the 2019 International Opera Awards. The path Asmik chose might be the thorniest – that of honest, painstaking and ceaseless work. She uses her family name not as an excuse but rather as an incentive to pursue her ultimate goal – to sound like a legend. The next three years will see Asmik singing main roles in all five of the biggest opera houses in the world.